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AFTER DECOLONISATION: WHOSE KNOWLEDGE, WHOSE FUTURE? Power, Technology and the Making of African Thought
Political independence did not erase the intellectual structures established under colonia...
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Call For Papers
AFTER DECOLONISATION: WHOSE KNOWLEDGE, WHOSE FUTURE? Power, Technology and the Making of African Thought
Political independence did not erase the intellectual structures established under colonia...
Submit Now
Joyce Onoromhenre Agofure — Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
This paper explores the complex interplay between oil, gender dynamics, and environmental security as depicted in Jeta Amata’s film Black November (2012). While prior research has examined the environmental impacts of oi...
Wotogbe-Ozuzuma — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Rivers State
· Vol. 31, No. 2
· 01 October 2025
Igwechi Hope (Ignatius Ajuru University of Education
This paper examines the burden of reproductive expectation on women in Ikwerre culture, highlighting the interplay between religious narratives, patriarchal traditions, and gendered reproductive responsibilities. It crit...
Imomitimi Armstrong — Niger Delta University
· Vol. 24, No. 1
· 07 July 2018
This paper begins on the contention that scholars of African oral literature have exhibited a “best avoided” approach towards formula, the most important aspect of the oral-formulaic theory of Milman Parry and Albert Lor...
Nneka Umera-Okeke — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
Various approaches have been used to describe how women use language in the society. They range from the deficit approach, dominance and difference approaches to the modern social constructionist approach. This study obs...
John Ebimobowei Yeseibo — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 July 2017
The feminist goal is to usher in an integrated human society, one that is free of gender imbalance. The primary aim of feminism is to expunge from society all forms of male dominance, oppression, subjugation and marginal...
Lekan Balogun — Victoria University
· Vol. 22, No. 2
· 19 June 2016
In this paper, I examine the tension between traditional African value-system on marriage and gender relations and Western perception and its interrogation often described as feminism. Since the contact with the European...
